Doing Bad to Look Good: Negative Consequences of Image Concerns on Pro-social Behavior

Social Image Concerns and Pro-Social Behavior

Social Image Concerns and Pro-Social Behavior Using longitudinal data on the entire population of blood donors in an Italian town, we examine how donors respond to an award scheme which rewards them with “medals” when they reach certain donation quotas. Our results indicate that donors significantly increase the frequency of their donations immediately before reaching the thresholds for which t...

Doing good buffers against feeling bad: Prosocial impact compensates for negative task and self-evaluations

Although evidence suggests that negative task and self-evaluations are associated with emotional exhaustion, little research has examined factors that buffer against these effects. We propose that perceived prosocial impact, the experience of helping others, compensates for negative task and self-evaluations by focusing attention on positive outcomes for others. In Study 1, perceived prosocial ...

Corporate Social Responsibility: Doing Well by Doing Good?

We provide a framework for analyzing corporate social responsibility (CSR). Our model of CSR in this paper has two important ingredients – CSR is at least in part a profit motivated decision; and different CSR activities are aimed at different audiences. We examine the implications of our framework using a ‘visible’ CSR index that captures consumeroriented CSR. We find that CSR is more prevalen...

Doing Good, Being Good, and the Social Construction of Compassion

Bad behavior: Good drugs and natural solutions

Pharmacotherapy When a pet is excessively aroused, fearful, anxious, stressed, reactive, lacking impulse control or “behaviorally abnormal”, psychotropic medications are indicated to improve the problem as well as address the pet’s well-being. However, drugs do not change the relationship with the stimulus; therefore, concurrent behavior modification is needed to desensitize, countercondition a...